A second coyote has been captured in New York, this time in Queens.
Police are trying to determine who left a dead dear with a cryptic note attached to it in the parking lot of a school in the Finger Lakes region.
The Department of Environmental Conservation says it's about to release 30,000 adult pheasants on lands open to public hunting.
Panera has asked its customers to not bring guns into its bakery-cafes, unless they are an authorized law enforcement officer.
Fishing season is opening in New York for walleye, northern pike, pickerel and tiger muskellunge.
While New York tries to eradicate Eurasian boars from its fields and forests, environmental regulators have banned hunting or trapping them in the wild.
Hunters harvested more than 243,000 deer in New York state during the 2013 hunting season, nearly the same as the take for the previous year.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is asking hunters to submit recommendations to its regional task forces for the dates of the fall 2014 duck hunting seasons by April 4.
New York environmental officials say none of the more than 2,400 deer tested for chronic wasting disease during hunting season showed signs of the disease.
New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation is starting an aerial survey of the deer population of the Bronx.